Because I'm lousy at fractionals, lol! I avoid them wherever possible, they really slow down my stitching and never look neat, and I was working to a time limit as I have to post this to a friend who's visiting the shrine soon, so I couldn't do anything too fiddly or time-consuming.
I was working with one strand of thread so it's neater on the back than it would have been if I'd been using two. That's one of the reasons I prefer stitching on the higher count fabrics and another reason for not using fractionals as the more holes per inch the fabric has, the harder it is to do quarter and three-quarter stitches. My eyesight isn't good enough to even attempt that on 18 count or higher. I suspect this is mislabelled 16 count though, I was having trouble finding a piece of fabric in my stash that hadn't been folded and creased, so I think I ended up with the wrong count.
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I was working with one strand of thread so it's neater on the back than it would have been if I'd been using two. That's one of the reasons I prefer stitching on the higher count fabrics and another reason for not using fractionals as the more holes per inch the fabric has, the harder it is to do quarter and three-quarter stitches. My eyesight isn't good enough to even attempt that on 18 count or higher. I suspect this is mislabelled 16 count though, I was having trouble finding a piece of fabric in my stash that hadn't been folded and creased, so I think I ended up with the wrong count.
Thank you!